Class Notes

Question 1

psychology is a … science, measuring variables that do not seem to be measurable (e.g. attraction, anger)

Answer 1

creative

Question 2

operational definition: defining terms for particular

Answer 2

contexts

Question 3

survey is the …, not …

Answer 3

methodology; questionnaire

Question 4

frontal lobe controls most complex … and …

Answer 4

human thoughts; behaviors

Question 5

hind brain controls … and …

Answer 5

hearbeat; breathing

Question 6

midbrain (aka …): controls …; … or …; …

Answer 6

reptilian brain; emotions; fight; flight; memory

Question 7

front brain/forebrain: inhibits

Answer 7

emotions

Question 8

inferential research is trying to predict through … and …

Answer 8

statistics; patterns

Question 9

interviews give more …, but it takes more …

Answer 9

in-depth information; time

Question 10

random sampling is necessary because people arrange themselves in

Answer 10

noncoincidental ways

Question 11

The closer a correlation is to 1, the … the correlation

Answer 11

stronger

Question 12

perfect bell curve occurs when …, …, and … are the same

Answer 12

mean; mode; median

Question 13

when mode, median, and mean differ, the curve gets …
… will be mode
median is … between … and …
mean is at the … of the bell curve

Answer 13

skewed; highest point; midpoint; mean; mode; plateau point

Question 14

even though mean is the central tendency, it represents the … bc …..

Answer 14

least amount of people; outliers inflate/decrease

Question 15

negative skew: tail of bell curve goes toward … (…)

Answer 15

negative; left

Question 16

positive skew: tail of bell curve goes toward … (…)

Answer 16

positive; right

Question 17

wilhelm wundt’s contributions: … and … as important aspects of psych, godfather of psych, interested in …

Answer 17

observations; experiments; perception

Question 18

central area for study of psych: …

Answer 18

germany

Question 19

theorized that humans had no control over …: … impacted behavior, undermines notion of …

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behavior; environment; free will

Question 20

mammals are … creatures–seeks attention, … is significant–> idea that … defines … is one school of thought

Answer 20

bonding; attraction; attention; environment

Question 21

freud particularly interested in .., because he viewed it as the mechanism by which we sustain the species

Answer 21

sex

Question 22

we are driven by: …, …, …, …, …, etc. contributes to importance of … in society

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water; heat; pleasure; food; sleep; money

Question 23

humanism argued that … does exist: there are things that drive us towards particular goals: not necessarily for a …

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free will; practical pupose

Question 24

heat + overpopulation always leads to

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aggression

Question 25

``` cognitive view of aggression: interpreting neutral signals as ... social-cultural view: ...; ... biological view: ... psychodynamic: people raised in ... evolutionary: ... behind aggression ```

Answer 25

threats; urban societies; poverty; testosterone; aggressive homes; defense mechanism

Question 26

people learn either through ... or ...

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experience; hand-me-downs

Question 27

humans adapt ...

Answer 27

behaviorally

Question 28

behavior can change when things become ... --makes you want it more

Answer 28

inaccessible

Question 29

phrenology is a ... that was ..., but it did indicate the truth of localization of function

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pseudoscience; disproved

Question 30

cell body holds

Answer 30

nucleus

Question 31

myelin sheath insulates tail to prevent ...

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signal from escaping

Question 32

terminal branches contains terminal ... that hold ...

Answer 32

buttons; neurotransmitters

Question 33

region in between neurons is ... | ... is the actual connection between adjacent neuron

Answer 33

synaptic gap; synapse

Question 34

... neuron is that which precedes the synapse, the one that comes after is ...

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pre-synaptic; post-synaptic

Question 35

information comes through ...

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dendrites

Question 36

neurotransmitters spill into ..., ... uses these to generate an electrical signal sent through the axon to the terminal branches

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synaptic gap; post-synaptic neuron

Question 37

SSRIs: medication; ...

Answer 37

selective serotonin reputake inhibitors

Question 38

SSRIs stop ... of serotonin, such that the signal ... and person is ...

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reuptake; continues; happy

Question 39

GABA: neurotransmitter that makes you

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tired

Question 40

every medication influences the ...

Answer 40

action potential

Question 41

pain medication is ...--> fills in dendrites so pain signal cannot continue

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antagonist

Question 42

fact that amygdala and hippocampus are close: things that are very emotional are

Answer 42

remembered well

Question 43

face takes up a lot of cortical space because it experiences

Answer 43

all five senses

Question 44

brocas area keeps speech

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regulated

Question 45

left visual field goes to ... for both eyes; right visual field goes to ... side for both eyes

Answer 45

right side; left side